U2 has released the video for the third single from their album, "No Line on the Horizon". "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" is also the song featured on the Blackberry ads running on television right now. The video is animated, and the band does not appear in it. It was an...

Saturday Night Live cast meber Bill Hader announced on Access Hollywood that U2 will be the musical guest for the season premiere of the sketch comedy show on September 26th. It will be U2's third appearance on the show, they also performed on December 9th, 2000 and November 20th, 2004. Megan Fox will...

U2 has agreed to have its Sunday, October 25th concert in Los Angeles, California broadcasted live on the band's channel on YouTube. The show will begin at 8:30 PM PST and will be aired in its entirety. It will be YouTube's second attempt at streaming a live event, as they streamed portions of the Outsi...

A few hours after wrapping up the 2009 US leg of their "360" tour, U2 announced a second US leg next summer. Click Here for the dates. The band's final US show this year last night at the Rose Bowl was broadcast live on the band's YouTube channel. Check out the 2 hour, twenty minute clip below. [...

U2 has announced that they will be performing a free concert in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The concert will take place November 5th in front of the Brandenburg Gate as part of the MTV Europe Musica Awards. The show will be seen by those attending the ceremony...

U2's performance at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA broke the band's own 22 year-old record for attendance at a US concert with a single headliner. 97,014 fans packed into the famed football stadium for the 360 Tour. On September 25th, 1987 U2 played JFK Stadium, which has since been demolished, to a cro...

Organizers of the 40th anniversary Glastonbury Festival, scheduled for June 25th, 2010, have announced that U2 will headline the festival. It will mark the Irish band's first festival appearance in 25 years. The festival lines up perfectly with a break in the band's hectic schedule on their hugel...

U2 and Paul McCartney each earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Song. McCartney was nominated for his song "I Want to Come Home", written for the film "Everybody's Fine". U2 earned their nod for the song "Winter", from "Brothers". Yeah Ye...

U2 frontman Bono got together with a handful of other musicians on Christmas Eve to perform on Grafton Street in Dublin. Check out the clip below. Joining Bono were Glen Hansard of the Swell Season, Damien Rice and Mundy. The men were raising money for Simon Community, an organization benefiting the...

U2's traveling spectacle the 360° Tour was the top-grossing North American tour of 2009, grossing $123 million for the North American leg of the tour. Bruce Springsteen came in 2nd with $94.5 million grossed, followed by the Billy Joel/Elton John double-bill at $88 million, and Britney Spears wit...

PBS television is getting ready to premiere a new documentary, "The Music of Ireland - Welcome Home", featuring U2, Sinead O'Connor, Pete Seeger, and the Chieftains. The program will first air on February 17th on PBS' New York affilliate, WLIW, and will debut on other PBS stations durin...

When U2 hit the road again in June for another round of their 360° Tour, Lenny Kravitz, Interpol, and the Fray will alternately provide support, at least on the US leg. Opening acts for the European and Canadian dates have yet to be announced. Click Here for a complete list of dates, confirmed openers,...

U2s October performance in front of 97,000 screaming fans at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California is already one of the most watched concerts in music history. More than 10 million people watched the performance on youtube within a week of the show. For those that missed the event, the band is releas...

U2 frontman Bono injured his back while preparing for the next leg of the band's "360" tour which is scheduled to kick off June 3rd in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 50 year old Irish singer has undergone emergency surgery at a Munich hospital. A spokesman for the band released the following stat...

U2 vocalist Bono, after suffering a serious back injury last week, which required the Irish singer to undergo emergency surgery, has been ordered by doctors to take the next eight weeks minimum off from touring. This means that the band's June 25th headling slot at the Glastonbury festival has been...

Live Nation announced yesterday the rescheduled US tour stops for U2's 360° tour. The 16 dates which were postponed when Bono was forced to undergo emergency back surgery have been re-slotted for next summer and spring in the same venues in which they were originally scheduled. The European leg of t...

Forbes released its list of highest earning musicians yesterday, and Irish rockers U2, thanks to their hugely successful 360 tour, came in at Number 1 with earnings of $130 million. The list was compiled based on earnings between June, 2009 and June 2008. Australian rockers AC/DC, with $114 millio...

U2 has debuted another new track at their tour stop in Helsinki, Finland Saturday after debuting 3 new tracks at the tour opener in Milan, Italy. Footage was posted online today of the newest track, "Every Breaking Wave". Watch the clip below. [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

When Irish rock legends U2 performed their first-ever concert in Russia yesterday, dozens of activists from Greenpeace and Amnesty International were arrested before the show began. The Amnesty International volunteers were especially surprised with the turn of events, as they have a standin...

Legendary Irish rockers U2 will reportedly appear in the next installment of the documentary series "Music of Ireland - Welcome Home and Welcome to America". The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan, Sinead O'Connor, and Damien Rice will also appear in the episode. The series will be broad...

A 2011 Major League Baseball three game series between the Florida Marlins and Seattle Mariners has been relocated to Seattle from Miami because of a concert scheduled at Miami's Sun Life Stadium. The series was scheduled to end June 26th and the concert is slated for June 29th, but the massive stag...

Irish rock legends U2 and R&B superstar Rihanna are among the artists who will take part in new digital-only album Universal Records is putting out to raise money for the victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th. While the lineup of contributing artists has...

Live Nation announced Monday that U2's ongoing "360" tour has officially become the top grossing tour of all time, as Sunday night's show in Sao Paulo, Brazil brought the tour's grand total in ticket sales past the Rolling Stones' "Bigger Bang" tour, which grossed $554 milli...

Rapper Jay-Z and hugely popular rock band U2 were both honored with Sports Emmy Awards at a ceremony Monday in New York. The Sports Emmy Awards are held each year to award outstanding achievement in sports broadcasting, and the musicians received awards for Outstanding Music Composition / Direct...

In today's music industry, with album sales lower than ever before and labels keeping as much as they can to try and stay afloat, touring is clearly the most profitable way for artists to rake in the dough, as evidenced by Forbes' Magazine's latest list of the world's 25 highest paid musicians. Thank...

Irish rockers U2 wrapped up their highly successful 360 tour in Mocton, New Brunswick on Saturday, bringing to an end the biggest tour of all time. According to Billboard, the tour grossed a $736 million and drew over 7,250,000 fans to 110 shows, both records for a single tour. The tour surpassed th...

Pop superstar Lady Gaga, U2 and Usher have been selected to perform at a special ceremony honoring the tenth anniversary of former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation. The concert will take place October 15th at the Hollywood Bowl, and proceeds will benefit the William J. Clinton Fou...

U2 took home the two biggest prizes Thursday night at the 8th Annual Billboard Touring Awards, held at New York's Roosevelt Hotel. Having wrapped up its impressive two-year 360 Tour in July, the band was awarded in the Top Tour and Top Draw categories, which award the top grossing and ticket-sellin...

U2 vocalist, Bono, is about to become the world's wealthiest musician. Bono's equity firm, Elevation Partners, gave $90 million to Facebook in 2009, which earned them a 2.3% stake in the company. With Facebook on the verge of going public, that $90 million investment is expected to be worth mor...